In a letter to his daughter on June 3, 1779, Benjamin Franklin wrote about the ... Nini produced a great number of portrait medallions depicting prominent figures such as Franklin, Louis XV, Empress ...

President Trump’s redecorated Oval Office includes a portrait of Benjamin Franklin and a fresh Andrew Jackson painting, part of an Inauguration Day overhaul of the most exclusive office space in ...

Benjamin and Deborah were devastated and commissioned a near life-size portrait to remember their son. Four decades later in France, Franklin told a companion about his son Franky’s death until ...

Harvard College Library At some point in the year after Franky died, Benjamin commissioned a portrait of the boy. Was it an attempt to lift Deborah out of debilitating grief? Given Franklin’s ...

Even “the commissioned portraits we have of him are no clearer ... and again in 1990 in a collection of essays, “Benjamin Franklin’s Science.” ...

Hear about the colonial period postal service in the latest “Portraits” podcast Chris Klimek In “Postage Pairings,” from the National Portrait Gallery, host Kim Sajet speaks with the ...

LOS ANGELES – Even Michael Douglas had doubts about portraying Benjamin Franklin in ... just had to glance at Franklin's ubiquitous portrait on the $100 bill to see there wasn't much resemblance ...